Principal clinical/counselling psychologist/clinical lead

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Clinical Lead

This post provides strategic and operational leadership for the Maternal Mental Health Service across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich, delivering highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention for women experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties related to maternity.

The post holder leads and develops a multidisciplinary psychological service, ensures high standards of clinical governance, and contributes to service development, evaluation and trauma-informed maternity care aligned with Trust and NHS Long Term Plan objectives.

Main duties of the job

Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for women with complex perinatal mental health presentations (e.g. PTSD, tokophobia, psychosis, personality disorder).Lead implementation, evaluation and ongoing development of the Maternal Mental Health Service. Provide specialist consultation, advice and supervision to psychology staff and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).Ensure delivery of culturally competent, accessible psychological services. Undertake and oversee risk assessment and safeguarding in line with Trust policy. Lead service evaluation, audit and research activity to inform evidence-based practice. Take autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of service users. Manage psychological resources and staff within the service. Operate within Trust, professional, HCPC and BPS frameworks.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (BPS accredited or equivalent).
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Completed training course in clinical supervision.
• Post-doctoral training in perinatal psychology.
• Additional specialist training (e.g. CBT, trauma-focused CBT, or equivalent advanced post-qualification training).
• Leadership or management training.

Experience

• Considerable experience of working as a clinical psychologist in relevant settings (e.g. perinatal mental health).
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with complex needs in perinatal mental health.
• Experience of leading and managing services, including managing staff and implementing service development.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists.
• Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for women with perinatal mental health difficulties.
• Advanced knowledge of the impact of maternal mental illness on the baby, including the mother-infant relationship.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex data analysis.
• Knowledge of approaches to leadership and management.
• Skills in providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£72,719 to £83,505 a yearpa inc pro rata